₦airaland Forum

Mokason288:
RIP BEAUTIFUL GIRL

IGBO AMAKA

Atiku you’re almost on every news lately, it’s too early to start strategizing 2023
Meanwhile Thank you so much SIR for your kind heart...
I’m sure you will make a better president than that Animal in human skin


I HOPE I MADE SENSE

Simplyleo:
Mynd44 lalasticlala

Simplyleo:
mynd44 lalasticlala

Rossinnki:
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There were no ethnic groups in Nigeria prior to the colonial era.

There was nothing like a Yoruba man.

Or a Hausa man.

Or an Igbo man.

That way of identifying people simply did not exist.

Message to secessionists:

Biafra is NOT your father's history.

Even the name Biafra is Portuguese.

There was no sense of Igbo nationhood prior to the colonial era.

So the whole 'Biafra' concept - the very concept of there being an ''Igbo people'' is European-originated, oriented, and influenced.

Your ''Igbo identity'' is a Tokunbo notion, every bit as foreign as your average, dodgy 2nd-hand junk.

Prior to the colonial era, the fact that you spoke the same language as another person did not mean you were of the same ''ethnic group'', different from those who spoke a different language.

That simply was NOT how we viewed ourselves in AFRICA.

Kinship and group identity were about blood connection and lineage, which transcended languages spoken, and often involved various languages existing within the same kinship group caused inter alia, by migration and inter-marriage.

In pre-colonial times, you were not ''an Igbo person''. You were a person who spoke Igbo language. Finish.

What identified you was your clan and your village or town, and your lineage therein, not the language you spoke.

There were Igbo-speaking groups who knew their cousins that spoke Yoruba or Edo a 100 miles away, and were closer to them by lineage than to Igbo-speaking communities even in the next town.

That is how we were. It wasn't about the language you spoke.

Today, out of European-influenced modern triibalism, we find previously connected people and communities now separating themselves by language, and denying ancestral links with those who speak a different language.

ALL OF THAT IS COLONIAL-INFLUENCED.

If you don't know your history, let us, your elders tell you your history.

Every person who hates another because they are supposedly of a ''different ethnic group'' is acting out the playbook written by 18th century European colonizers who came here to divide and conquer, and is NOT following in the ways of our fathers.

Thank You.

Freestainworld:
this is the problem we have in Nigeria, people promoting failures.

Awol1:
If the God forsaken "Daily Asset Newspaper" has a house of it's own, their CofO should revoked.

If they are in a rented apartment, their landlord should give them quit notice.

Fools!

tricksters:
What won't one see from this foolish n cursed igbo CBN governor ?! Whoever trust this lunatic with money in the first place ? The economy is in shambles, reserve depleted, raising inflation n persistent lack of employment. These n pathetic appointments of foolish souls such as this dolt is the reason why i now understand Buhari is the most foolish n senseless president to ever rule Nigeria.

tricksters:
Imagine these 2 foolish souls fooling themselves after WAEC itself brought Bubari's certificate on National TV. Ask them for their pathetic n bigoted tribe to discover they are the cursed jews from hell fire who goes about wailing they are hated cos they are developers while they live a life of eternal hate even among themselves "osu".

NGpatriot:
Useless man and his Oga including the looting and stealing PDP stole the largest oil earnings in the history of Nigeria and left us with nothing but darkness and abandoned projects all over the country, this clown and his boss built universities, but his own children graduated form foreign universities, now all of a sudden, he's concerned about Nigeria and the future of our kids.


What a disgusting looter and hypocrite.

KEVIND:
So because he & PDP looted some decade ago,he should keep quiet while Buhari take the borrowing and looting to another level. Remember, the Obasanjo administration negotiated Nigeria out of debt. If every preceding administration were borrowing at the rate Buhari is borrowing, by now Nigeria will have been so indebted that she would have been auctioned off.
In the last 4 years this regime have borrowed nothing less than 12 Trillion Naira and they want to borrow another 11 Trillion Naira (30 billion dollars). Haba.. Buhari want to suffocate Nigeria to death?

ikorodureporta:
he pointed!

hisexcellency34:
I like him for his consistency. Sanwo-Olu never disappoints ...he pointed!

godlyguy:
Former vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar who is obviously still embittered by the gross miscarriage of justice against his petition challenging president Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the last presidential election, has come in full force against the Buhari administration over its insistence in borrowing $29.6 billion, and the Senate's willingness to approve the President's request.

Atiku who said he is still in disbelief that the Buhari administration is still pushing for the loan despite the dangers it poses for the future of the country, said its high time Nigerians begin to hold leaders accountable even those representing them in the Senate.

He said the problem with the Buhari administration is not even the borrowing, but the total lack of vision, capacity and good sense of judgment in its decision making. He added that under such an inept government, even $1 trillion won't still be enough.

Below is the full statement of the former vice president as shared on his Facebook page;

John Quincy Adams once said “there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” He may have very well been referring to Nigeria of the last three years.

Barely two weeks ago, I warned during my Founder’s Day lecture at the American University of Nigeria, Yola, that Nigeria had taken almost as much foreign debt in the last three years, as she had taken in the thirty years before 2015 combined. Now that is frightening. And very true.

Frightening, not just because of the amount, but because after such unprecedented borrowing, we have emerged as the world headquarters for extreme poverty and the global capital for out of school children. It begs the question: what were the funds used for?

I have said it time and again. The business of government is too serious to be left in the hands of politicians. We must all ask questions because if they throw away the future, it is not going to be their future they are throwing away, it will be all our futures.

The fact that Nigeria currently budgets more money for debt servicing (₦2.7 trillion), than we do on capital expenditure (₦2.4 trillion) is already an indicator that we have borrowed more money than we can afford to borrow. And the thing is that debt servicing is not debt repayment. Debt servicing just means that we are paying the barest minimum allowable by our creditors.

And while spending 50% of our current revenue on debt servicing, this administration wants to take further loans of $29.6 billion! To say that this is irresponsible is itself an understatement.


https://ebeanonews..com/2019/12/30b-loan-buhari-is-not-good-businessman.html?m=1

MelesZenawi:
Obiano is the most useless Governor Anambra state has produced.

Vision less and no mission...

odave:
Please o, what if they want to build another one from scratch? And someone says there's no more corruption? I tire o

Send the 37bn to every state (1bn per state) give it out as loan to entrepreneurs, 1m to 1000 person in each state. This will be more beneficial to us but never, they will use 30 million for renovation and embezzle the 36.7bn

I'm sure some nairalanders will support them... Just wait

Deepfeel:
Imposter I know you will claim ikweres are the majority in rivers , ikweres are not the majority in rivers ikweres has the population of just a million, the reason ikweres always produce governors is because the , south east Igbo's and all the igbiod tribes like the ekpeye, agbo people in rivers always support an ikwere man instead of supporting an ogoni man or kalabari who are equally big in population, the majority tribes in rivers state are ogoni kalabari and ikwere , none of these tribes can produce governors on their own without the votes of the other minority tribes ,

Mr imposter no matter how you try to argue this it won't work, ikwere is an igbiod tribe, they speak Igbo they answer Igbo names and practice Igbo culture, just because ikweres were cowards during the Biafra war and denied their Igbo ethnicity doesn't make them an ethnic group, we will state seen ikweres as an ethnic group of its own by the time, they drop the Igbo language and tradition, and give us a clear history of ikwere been an ethnic group then we will agree with them

Awol1:
Damn!

What a gut displayed by PUNCH.

History will remember you right for being the first media outfit to stand up against this tyranny and call it by it's name.

I hope Sun, Vanguard, Thisday, Leadership, Premium Times, Channels, AIT, and all media outfit will follow suit.

But as regards Sowore, he is on his own. He's a big fool being punished by Karma. He worked against GEJ for Buhari. Let him enjoy the saviour he heralded.

Now, you would wanna question why I can't get past 2015, it's simple. GEJ ran a government of vision with short, medium and long term visions backed by measurable policies.

I never benefitted from his govt nor do I have anyone who did but Nigeria was moving in the right direction. All indices were pointing positive.

But Sowore chose to amplify little pitfalls and made look gigantic. Let him enjoy.

On another note however, I really wanna understand the God or whatever GEJ is serving...

Dude moved from lecturing to Deputy Governor.

Something happened to the Governor, he became Governor.

Then he became Vice president.

Something happened to the president and he became president.

Now, all those who worked against him have tested a pill of their own..

Atiku
Saraki
Kwankwaso
Dino Melaye
Many of them.

Really, who is Goodluck Ebele Jonathan?

plainol:
A supposed secret police that cannot infiltrate Boko Haram after ten years of it's operation in Sambisa, is that one a secret service or glorified vigilante group/armed bodyguard organization?


Instead of providing quality intelligence service to the military on whereabouts of Shekau and his evil followers, they are busy showing how irresponsibly incompetent they are.


Even civilian JTF guys supply more intelligence than them.

Tueh!

SaintLucia:
Report this criminal and murderer to the nearest police station in case you see him.

pazienza:
Ogbuehi Francis Ellah was an Igbo giant. The epitome of selfless service to Igbo nation.

Too bad no single important public building in South East is named about it. Failure to recognize and honour such a dead hero as a example to the living, is exactly why Igbo nation is sick and dying today.
Ohanaeze should see to it, that a major public building, institution or road is named after Ogbuehi Francis Ellah in South East.

Your rankings of SE governors is on point, I can't agree less.

mrvitalis:
Who notice the grazing reserves are in places Fulani wants domination over ...northern minority states ...zamfara the few last Hausa strong hold

Thats their business ....Niger state which is Fulani controlled has more than enough land to host all the cow in Nigeria ...but they know what they really want

All I know is there can never be grazing reserve in the south east

englishmart:
Clear the debts na, shey EFCC has been recovering looted funds
You inherited $63bn and you're not doing anything to clear it, instead you're compounding the debt making it difficult to clear thereby sabotaging our future. You're in your second term and 're still blaming the opposition for your woes and ineptitude.

Racoon:
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.icirnigeria.org/nigerias-external-debt-rises-by-163-per-cent-between-2015-and-2019/amp/

And any reasonable Nigerian needs a sooth- sayer to know that this government is a curse?